Did you know that another name for the cornflower is the bachelors button. The name, Bachelor’s Button, may have arisen during Victorian times when the flowers were often placed in the button holes of men’s suit coats. In his 1851 book, The Flower Garden, Joseph Breck dismisses them as a common weed known as Blue Bottle. Despite Breck’s disdain, Bachelor Buttons have grown in popularity and are now a staple in many gardens today.

I love flowers, no surprise there, and I especially love their symbolism. Cornflowers are symbolic of positive hope for the future, which in times of COVID is something we all need. The Cornflower is after all a humble reminder of nature’s simple beauty and the fullness of life’s cycle. Daisies, like corn flowers are also part of the Asteraceae family and symbolize innocence and purity. This stems from an old Celtic legend. According to the legend, whenever an infant died, God sprinkled daisies over the earth to cheer the parents up. In Norse mythology, the daisy is Freya’s sacred flower. Freya is the goddess of love, beauty, and fertility, and as such the daisy came by to symbolize childbirth, motherhood, and new beginnings. Besides the beautiful combination of blue and white, the two very humble, simple flowers combined together in an arrangement have a beautiful symbolic significance.

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